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Fresh from the conference floor! From Native Agents to Iceberg Direct, here are the game-changing announcements.

Explore how Snowflake enables secure data sharing across organisations. Learn about secure share mechanics, the difference between private and public shares, publishing to the Marketplace, and best practices for sharing responsibly.

Control flow in SQL used to be a pain. Snowflake Scripting makes it native. How to write loops, exception handlers, and cursors.

This article examines Snowflake’s zero-copy cloning feature in depth, showing how it can be used beyond dev/test for sandboxing, branching datasets, cost interactions, risks, code examples, and a decision guide for when cloning is appropriate.

Snowflake went Open Source? A look at Polaris Catalog and what it means for the multi-engine future.

This article explores when to use Snowflake’s external tables, covering supported file formats, benefits, limitations, example SQL, and a decision-making framework to help avoid common anti-patterns.

Freedom from vendor lock-in? Why Apache Iceberg is the most important architectural shift in the Data Cloud

This article explores hybrid cloud data architectures combining Snowflake with on-premise systems, covering connectors, networking and security considerations, integration patterns, and practical migration pathways.